Circuit Judge Patricia N. Conlon gave no specific date for when she will give her opinion, but has scheduled an administrative review in the case for April 8, Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting said.

Getting said he is hopeful Conlon will make her findings known by April 8. The prosecutor’s office has contended that Woods’ parental rights to Drayanna O’Day should be terminated.

A family court jury in May found that Woods and her boyfriend, Fred Glespie, neglected Drayanna and her three younger siblings, 3-year-old twins Tevin and Te’Niyah Williams, and 1-year-old Ty’onna Henderson, on Feb. 18, 2013, when the children were left alone prior to a fire that destroyed Woods’ apartment at Interfaith Homes.

Drayanna, who has lived with her Woods’ sister, Alberta Jackson since the fatal fire, was able to escape the blaze but Woods’ three youngest children were killed.

Conlon began hearing testimony in Woods’ termination hearing in family court on Dec. 18. Testimony continued Tuesday and arguments concluded late Tuesday afternoon.

Getting said Conlon now has to decide whether to terminate Woods’ parental rights, and also can consider a third alternative – a guardianship for Drayanna – that was suggested Tuesday by guardian ad-litem Michael Dzialowski in his closing arguments.

“We continue to believe the termination of her parental rights is the appropriate outcome,” Getting said.

A Michigan Department of Human Services caseworker who testified Tuesday said she also believes that Woods’ rights to Drayanna should be terminated. Under questioning from Assistant Prosecutor Ramie Almeda, Danielle Nordbrock said, among other things, that Woods lacks a steady home environment for her daughter and is currently staying with a sister and her boyfriend, TyQuan Brown.

Nordbrock also noted that reports she’s reviewed from doctors who have observed Woods and her daughter are consistent in saying that Woods’ relationship with her daughter is “more of a playmate or friend relationship rather than a mother-child relationship.”

Jackson, however, “takes charge and sets boundaries,” Nordbrock said.

“Drayanna needs someone who will need to be able to set boundaries and have regular routines,” Nordbrock said. “… Jonetta clearly loves Drayanna, that’s without question, and everything that has happened has been very difficult for her.

“But is she going to be able to provide all of those things for Drayanna? … I don’t think so.”